[POLL] DEMAKES AND WHAT TO EXPECT

FF9 has a medieval setting. If you're not planning to make your own graphics, that will help a lot with finding graphics that will work. If you're using FF4/FF5/FF6 graphics for your tilesets, for example, they'll include almost everything you need for FF9/FF10/FF12's worlds, but be extremely useless for FF7/FF8's worlds.

Interesting point. I kind of assumed the OP was making own graphics. That said, there ARE a good selection of science fiction and IIRC even steampunk tilesets available for VX Ace now, I can cheerfully report. Modifying those would be easier than going from scratch.

FFX is a linear romp with truly turn-based battles. Most of the work would be UI- and resource-related. The engine already implements most of the features you'd need.

With the important exception of the linear part, I think this is more or less true of FFVII or FFIX. The linear part is a big deal from a design perspective but FFX still HAS ton of areas you'd have to map, so it doesn't really make it easier that you visit them all in a set order.

"Gambits" is where Final Fantasy lost me, honestly. Everything after 10 where it wasn't turn based anymore and felt more like a single-player MMORPG or some shit where I had to set up AI for my dudes or whatever...it just lost me. To each their own, I guess.

It seems like the battle systems of VII and IX would be easiest to do, but honestly those are the ones I remember the best. I remember that I HATED VIII's and I don't remember X's well at all.

I guess I mean, if you did FFX you wouldn't have to recreate Blitzball. And if you did FFVIII you wouldn't have to create that stupid card game, Triple Triad or something? So those aren't inherently obstacles.

Well if you see creating Blitzball as at all mandatory then yeah, FFX is definitely DEFINITELY not the easiest. I would certainly go with FFVII or FFIX in that case based on being able to pull off.

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wouldn't have to recreate Blitzball.

If you're building FFX without Blitzball, what's the fucking point? The only reason to progress the plot is to recruit characters from the Fahrenheit and post Calm Lands zones.

I shall refrain to have a reaction to this statement, while I try to wipe the tears I've shed during the whole adventure, and that double in ammount though every gameplay.

Just so everybody knows, ROMHacking.net did a complete overhaul of the terrible-quality Chinese FF7 hack, and it is much, much better. It's a full remake of a demake. The details can be found here.

A bit more info:
The actual page with the download.
You will need to somehow acquire (uh, legally?) a copy of the NES ROM, first.
It seems FCEUX runs the game best.

It's not a bad start, Jin, but it seems awfully...lifeless. Like, Cloud rushes up to his enemy and then gently taps it with his sword. There needs to be some forward movement there as he swings down.

Also, count on my support for scripting should you need it. I made Blitzball with events in rm2k3, so I'm pretty sure I can do it better with RGSS. I can code more or less any system you need replicated.

Imagine yourself swinging an enormous sword, jin; the weight of it will pull your upper body forward. The animation needs to show that there's force behind Cloud's swing by having him bend slightly as the sword connects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZsCe_ch7j0

Watch his movements in that video for an idea of what I mean.

Much better! I would maybe have another frame after that with the sword angled down a bit to show the power of the swing.